It is snowing and cold now. My fingers are getting
numb and my feet are wet. I don`t know where my daddy is, he told me
to be daddys little girl and wait, but its so cold.My dolly and I have been here a long time. I think about
what has happened to me. I am only nine but everybody says I`m smart for
my age.
I think it was a long time ago, two months ago that it happened. Daddy came home from work very angry
. He and mommy were talking upstairs very loudly. He told mommy he was being downsized and was fired from work.
Daddy did not have to go work anymore, so I thought he could play with me.
Mommy and daddy were yelling at each other late one night. I crept down the stairs and quietly listened.
Mommy said daddy was supppose to put all the money in the bank, so it would there when they needed it, and I could go to college.
Daddy had been bad, he had put all the money in some place called the stock market. It must not been a safe place because it was all gone.
After that night, bad things began to happen. Daddy stopped talking and began to drink all the time, he hardly went to look for work anymore.
Mommy was real quiet too, she slept in the guest room. Things began to vanish from the house, mommy said daddy was selling them to get money for the bills. We never saw the money he got,
just daddy drinking and yelling more. He told mommy everthing was her fault for wanting diamonds and expensive things.
Then one night, I heard a big fight between mommy and daddy. Mommy told me to shut my door and go to sleep.
Sddenly I heard mommy yell real loud, NO!,and the sound of broken glass.Something big fell over
and I buried my head under the blankets. The next morning I didn`t see mommy like I aways did for breakfast.
Daddy told me mommy had left during the night,she didn`t want to be with us anymore. I cried and cried feeling like my heart had exploded.
I looked in the room where my parents had been last night, and noticed the big rug was missing.There was a stange feeling there, a real scary feeling like something bad happened.
My father told me it had broken glass on it and he threw it away,and that if anyone asked say mommy went to a new place with friends.
Daddy changed more, after that night I was told never to go into that room and play. He drank everyday,and never paid attention to me. I sometimes saw him looking
at me with this scary look in his eyes. Today it started to snow, but daddy said we were going to a special, secret kind of place to play. We got in the car and drove for a long time.
When we got there, he told me "be daddy`s good little girl", stay here until I come back.
I played in the park, even when it got slowly darker I was a good girl. Me and my dolly are playing house under the trees.
I hope daddy comes back soon,he forgot about lunch.
Daddy never came back yet, maybe I was a bad girl. I did what daddy said to do, not to talk to anybody and hide by the trees. He told me it was a special game for good girls. Its night now, I am so cold, cold. I am going to sleep a while now
My dolly said she would keep me warm, she tells me its bedtime.
Its not cold now, I`m warm now. I feel like I am home in my own bed. Mommy has just kissed me goodnight. I LOVE YOU DADDY....GOOD NIGHT..
